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Writing a postmortem: an interview exercise I like (2017)
y like 2017-10-31 First, some exciting news that’s relevant as context: starting in November, I’ll be joining Mapbox in their Washington, DC office. One thing that made me excited about joining Mapbox was how much I enjoyed their interview process.
The postmortem takes the form of a shared document where everybody can contribute their account of the incident to help identify its ultimate causes and propose changes to prevent it from happening again. Finding ultimate rather than proximate causes, dismissing alternate explanations, and considering counterfactuals are all closely related to the type of critical thinking involved in debugging software or troubleshooting systems. Anyway, I’m excited about the new job, and feel free to reach out if you’re curious about the Mapbox hiring process or what it’s like to work there (you should probably give me some time after I’ve started for the latter).
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